One thing you can’t argue about owning a PlayStation Portable (PSP) is that it helps to pass the time. That’s exactly what 33 miners in Chile need to do after being trapped 2,300 feet underground earlier this month. Estimates for completing an escape shaft are sometime before Christmas.

Among other essential items, it’s been decided that PSPs are the game handheld of choice to help them endure the long stay.That’s a strange decision seeing as the hole supplying the miners with items is quite small, and the PSP is the biggest handheld out there. It’s doubly strange as the PSP battery is by far the quickest to run out of juice.

Still, anything is better than nothing in such a situation, and PSPs have now been sent down a relief hole to reach the trapped workers. For some gamers, their PSP is a daily necessity and considering the long wait these miners must endure it may soon become theirs as well.

Reader Comments

ice

It’s true battery gets drained a couple of hours with games. But psp also has video and music capabilities which last longer. It also has skype feature, so if they have wi-fi they can do video chat or something.

Folly

Wifi that’s available through 2300 ft of solid rock? Sign me up.

Derek

Your wifi doesn’t work through just a couple thousand feet of rock? But then how do you check your email from your secret, underground hideout? j/k

Actually, now that I think about it, with the techniques used by those guys who win the wifi longshot (or whatever it’s called) contest each year, a couple dish antennas positioned nicely, and a little luck, maybe they *could* have provided them with the interwebs through their own special wifi tube, lol.